Artist Daniel Moore has completed a pencil sketch of "A Crimson Tradition," his new work commemorating Alabama's BCS national championship this past season. It's actually the second of five paintings in a planned series titled "The Greatest Season Ever," and it joins an earlier work on Terrence Cody's game-winning field goal block against Tennessee, which is titled "Maximum Block."

"This painting will be highly symbolic," Moore said. "I want it to convey the positive ideals of Alabama's great tradition, of teamwork and winning (and in particular, the winning of the 2009 National Championship) and of course, about Coach Saban and his 'Process.'"

Moore says he's now in the oil painting stage of the process for "A Crimson Tradition." At the completion of the painting, New Life Art will immediately begin the process of publishing limited edition prints.

"I am very pleased with the outcome of my preliminary pencil study for 'A Crimson Tradition,'" Moore said. "Weeks of research and work went into developing and executing the drawing. Although this research and drawing stage doesn't take as long as the actual painting process, the overall image itself and most of the artistic considerations are developed during this time. Aside from the refinement capabilities that working in oils provides (and the obvious addition of color), I will make some minor modifications to the actual painting. As this is always the case with the transition of my drawings to paintings, it is also part of the purpose in doing them.

"In my preliminary drawing of 'Maximum Block,' I did not include Nico Johnson, but after reevaluating the study, I saw where the composition called for the additional Alabama player. As was the case with the 'Maximum Block' drawing, a limited edition of prints from the preliminary pencil drawing of 'A Crimson Tradition' will be made available."